Egyptian Revolution of 1952

The Egyptian Revolution of 1952 occurred on 23 July 1952, when the Muslim Brotherhood-backed Free Officers Movement - led by Mohammed Naguib, Gamal Abdel Nasser, and Anwar Sadat - overthrew the constitutional monarchy of King Farouk I of Egypt. The nationalist and anti-imperialist army officers sought to oust the unpopular, pro-British Farouk from power and abolish the monarchy and aristocracy of Egypt, create a republic, end the British occupation of Egypt, and grant Sudan its independence. The mutinous soldiers occupied Alexandria and forced King Farouk to abdicate and go into exile, and his son Fuad II of Egypt would briefly serve as monarch before the passage of a new constitution created a secular republic. The new republic, headed by Nasser and his Arab Socialist Union of Egypt, enacted far-reaching land reforms and created a stronger Egypt, and it banned the Muslim Brotherhood in 1954 after the group attempted to assassinate Nasser. The Nasserist revolution's success in Egypt instilled revolutionary fervor in other African and Arab countries, inspiring countless more Arab and African anti-imperialist revolutions.